The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 59
He did not know how long he had slept when a sudden sound awoke him, and opening his eyes he saw a black girl standing beside him.
Who acts: Prince, sudden sound, black girl · What happens: not know, sleep, awake, open, see, stand · To what, where: Prince, eyes, black girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, sudden sound, black girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 slept | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slept | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 slept | aux |
| 9 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 awoke | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 12 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sound | amod |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awoke | nsubj |
| 14 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 slept | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 awoke | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 18 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 saw | csubj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 opening | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 girl | amod |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 girl | acl |
| 27 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 standing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sleep | past · perfect | Prince | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | a sudden sound | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | gerund | Prince's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past | Prince | a black girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | stand | gerund | a black girl not said here | beside Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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